“When words stop meaning anything, when truth doesn’t matter, when people can just lie with abandon, democracy can’t work.”

— Barack Obama

Speech at political rally on November 2, 2018. Source: Obama rips hecklers: Why are the people who won the last election ‘so mad all the time?' https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/03/obama-rips-hecklers-why-are-people-who-won-last-election-so-mad-all-time/
2018

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“It’s a myth that you can’t have it all…When I was younger, I got some great advice: you can have it all—just maybe not all at the same time…That doesn’t mean you should stop trying to balance everything and strive to be the best you can be every day.”

Eva Longoria (1975) American actress

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“Government cannot be abolished but they can be abandoned and this will take place when you give up your political adolescence and stop trying to establish your will on others. The bureaucracies will be abandoned when people demonstrate they can bet along without familia.”

Phillip Abbott Luce (1935–1998)

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“The most difficult thing is when you can’t do anything. When you just have to wait.”

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short quotes, 9 November 1965; p. 54
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“don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.”

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Source: Dr Sax

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William H. McRaven (1955) United States admiral

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